Figure 1.
The flowchart of the selection of the patients with thyroid nodules.
Table 1.
The basic characteristics of the patients and the US features of the thyroid nodules.
Table 2.
Predictive value of conventional US features in 173 thyroid lesions.
Figure 2.
A 42-year-old woman with a solid lesion of nodular goiter.
Gray-scale image (a) and color Doppler image (b) of the nodule. VTQ of the nodule (c) shows the SWV is 1.13 m/s and the SWV of the adjacent thyroid tissue (d) is 2.72 m/s.
Figure 3.
A 59-year-old woman with a solid lesion of papillary carcinoma.
Gray-scale image (a) and color Doppler image (b) of the nodule. VTQ of the nodule shows the SWV is displayed as x.xxm/s and the SWV of the adjacent thyroid tissue (d) is 1.76 m/s.
Table 3.
The diagnostic performance of SWV and SWV ratio in differentiating benign from malignant thyroid nodules.